A man who was believed to have been running from a raid by US immigration agents died Thursday after being hit by a car on a freeway, police said.

City managers in Monrovia, near Los Angeles, said police had been called after there were reports of activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at a Home Depot.

During the raid, one man ran from the parking lot of the hardware store -- a place where day laborers commonly gather looking for casual work -- and onto a busy freeway during rush hour, Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik told media.

A spokesman for the California Highway Patrol (CHP) said the 40-year-old man was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries a few hours later.

Neither CHP nor the city were immediately able to provide any details on the man's ide

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